what is normal idle RPM?

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Jun 27, 2005

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what is normal idle RPM?

What is the normal idle RPM for our cars? I have a brand new 2005 civic reverb and I think that it's idleling very low. it idles at 500 RPM's. The car I had before Idleled at 1000 RPM. Does anybody have any idea if it is normal or not.

Jun 27, 2005

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my car idles at like 1500! is it messed up

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i think it's between 500-1000. mine idles at 700

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yeah me too, probably around 700, thanks, I tought my car was already mesed up. I was woried.

Jun 27, 2005

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mine at 1k sometimes it drops lower,

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Yeah, mine does that too...starts to idle a little higher than 1k, then drops to like 800rpm...

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ok when its cold its at like 1000 or 1250 or something like that. when its hot and you have been driving it for a good ten minutes or do it drops to about 500. when i go 80 for a half hour then stop at a light, it idles at like 300 or 200. real quiet.

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yup, mine is never above 800, but i live in az, the car is warmed up before i start it

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Mine is anywhere from 700-1.2k depending on the weather.

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Idle when the engine is warm with no load is 750 +/- 50 rpm for American models. 720 +/- 50 rpm for Canadian Models. Your engine will not idle at 300 or 200 without running extremely rough and is about to stall. If your tach is reading 300 or 200 and your engine is running smoothly, your dashboard tachometer is wrong. Plug in a scan tool to see an accurate tach reading.

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your right its at 500 when its hot. it likes to bump up and down. like it will go to 500 then go down and up and down and up. like its trying to stall but it wont. but its not tryin to stall. know what i mean?

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this is the only guy who got it right.

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this is the only guy who got it right.

good to know!

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at 500RPM the car should be shaking quite a bit. My idle after warm up, if moving is around 900RPM, complete stop, no accessories on, just below 700RPM.

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i have a safc installed and mines read around 700 at idling when car is warmed up

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750ish for me

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notice how below the 1k rpm mark each dash is 200 rpms, not 100 rpms after the 1k mark. so in this picture that i took my rpms are at about 5-600. its above the second line, but below the third. so the third is 600 the second is 400. so yeah. i thought i would have to post a pic. anyway, my car does not idle hard, in fact its very silent and most people think its off. so its nice. what do you guys think?

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I don't think it's like that. The 0 means 0, the white line right above it equals 500, then every small line above that is 100. So your idle RPM is about 750.

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o i thought it was by 200 when the lines were lower than the one. oops. sorry guys. btw are you sure about this? not to doubt just wondering. man, its good to see the same thing at a diff angle. good stuff.